Koom La Viim News
West Africa Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Program (USAID WA- WASH) Volume:Volume: 13/201613/2016 Date: March 2016 KOOM LA VIIM NEWS Content LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Presidential program 2 for water and sanita- populations. The country needs it! We tion in Burkina Faso started monitoring the sustainability of our AfWA’s capacity 4 past activities in three countries. Burkina building Faso was first, we visited 30 communities WAY-WASH network 5 and all the program water infrastructure (wells outfitted with rope pumps) in these Monitoring of Phase I 6 communities. We are happy to report that a activities in Burkina big percentage of the water points are Faso functional. The breakdowns are mostly due USAID WA-WASH schol- 8 to the rope breaking after months of usage. arship program A workshop which brought the rope Important past events 11 manufactures, beneficiaries, well and government agency members took place at Upcoming events/Photo 11 Another quarter went by – the first quarter the WA-WASH office in Ouaga to find the tour of our Phase II. As we enter into this new best possible solution to this problem. Next phase which involves some exciting on our list are the communities in Niger activities, we would like to share with you (May 2016) and Ghana (June 2016). Editor ’s note some news about the past quarter. A busy KOOM LA VIIM means time for our team members. Setting up a Institutional capacity building of regional water is life in mooré, a local number of things for the implementation of and pan-African organization is the corner language in Burkina our three Phase II objectives: (1) Coordinate stone of our work for the next two years.
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